Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’ – Discovery.com- msnbc.com

Cory Doctorow’s Bitchun Society comes one step closer — a society in which people are permanently wired into the net, can see head-up displays in their visual field, can vote on each other’s status (like voting on Digg stories), and can email each other directly from the mind. It’s a concept that’s both scary (what about mindful concentration?) and attractive (all that access to information, anytime).

The Army grant to researchers at University of California, Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland has two objectives. The first is to compose a message using, as D’Zmura puts it, “that little voice in your head.”

The second part is to send that message to a particular individual or object (like a radio), also just with the power of thought. Once the message reaches the recipient, it could be read as text or as a voice mail.

Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’ – Discovery.com- msnbc.com

1. Warren 1.17.09 / 11:41
   

   I think communication is one of the less interesting potential applications.
2. bodhipaksa 1.17.09 / 11:49
   

   There are certainly plenty of other applications, and some are already in use, such as diagnosis of mental illness.

   I removed your link, by the way. I really don’t have much interest in helping you sell a domain name.